Racist 'Meta Slave' NFT Project Stirs Controversy

Huge criticism has emerged on social media against a racist NFT project depicting black people; called the “Meta Slave” NFT collection. The collection is said to have 1,865 NFTs, Vice reported.

So far, at least 971 NFTs have been released; all of them featuring black people with the first one depicting an image of George Floyd entitled: “Meta Slave #1 ‘I CAN’T BREATHE.’”

The NFTs are uploaded for auctions with a start price of 0.01 ETH, around $276. But not all the prices are the same as ‘The George Floyd’ one is priced at 25.04ETH ($69,146), Sealth Optional said.

What was described as more sickening is that a Twitter page related to the ‘META Slave’ project was created with the name ‘BABY META SLAVES’ featuring black babies.

On the other hand, the META SLAVE project has responded to backlashes saying: “In creating our project, we wanted to show that everyone is a slave to something. A slave to desires, to work, to money, etc.” 

The project also added that: “There will be other collections in the future: white, Asian, etc.”

‘Black Lives Matter’ activists and human rights advocates have slammed this insulting business as some people have described it as ‘racist crypto-art’. Twitter users have urged for a united action to report this shame account with the aim to close it permanently.

Despite the fact that the META SLAVE project said that this came to honor BLM and George Floyd, people are calling for the closure of the project describing it as racist.

Due to the huge backlash and the campaign to close and stop the project, not a single NFT was sold, sources said.